No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.